July 22, 2009 Posts

I've always been a domain flipper at heart. I've only owned a handful of domains for more than a years time. Mostly the ones that I swore I'd get around to developing one day. At one point, my partner and I owned 10,000 keyword dot .com's. I'd spend hours scanning the drop lists for the

eNom has issued an official statement on the domains stolen from industry veteran Warren Weitzman's account. They express confidence they can get the names back. Meanwhile, NameDrive throws a roadblock in the thief's path by preventing the crook from monetizing the stolen domains there.

As you may be aware SnapNames since recently holds regular monthly showcase auctions on their site. This month saw mixed results for the auction with the total sales amount coming just under $90k at $89,353.00 by my calculations. I personally thought discounttravel.net ($3,900.00), musicarchive.com ($4,710.00) and a couple of others were really goo...

SnapNames Summer Stimulus auction has concluded with 38 domains selling for nearly $90,000 including DegreePrograms.com for $31,555. Overall, nearly half of the names in the catalog were sold and a number of one and two-word domains met their reserves. Other notable sales included CameraBags.com $10,500, Pumped.com for $5,750, MusicArchive.com for ...

Arbitrator sued in Houston for allegedly presuming guilt. One of National Arbitration Forum's (NAF) most prolific arbitrators, The Honorable Carolyn Marks Johnson, has been sued in Houston for alleged judicial misconduct. Judge Johnson has been an active domain dispute arbitrator with NAF. A 2001 analysis of UDRP cases (pdf) showed that, not only...

Cleveland Browns quarterback loses arbitration for BradyQuinn.com. Brady Quinn's domain name has been intercepted. The Cleveland Browns quarterback filed for arbitration at National Arbitration Forum to get the domain name BradyQuinn.com from a Florida man. He lost the case, failing to persuade an arbitrator that the domain name was registered in ...

Sedo.com has posted a couple more great domain name sales in the form of 63.com for $75,000 USD and 70.com for $87,000 USD. Both domain names were owned by the same owner and both domain names were purchased by the same buyer! According to Whois Records, the past owner was Heritage Plantation Inc. and the buyer is

I was watching the expired domain name auction for TeeBox.com on Godaddy.com Auctions and was going to bid if the numbers stayed lower. Like $1xx lower So I watched the auction for a little bit and it was over $400 already and I logged out but I was not watching when the bidding normally

A few people have asked today – and the answer is yes, my blog has a new header. I didn't think the old header was utilizing its space as well as possible, and the new header allowed me to easily add two new sections – a Domain Names for Sale section and an Expiring Domain Related posts:Subprime Mess I am selling the domain name Subp...

Hi everyone, Thank you for your patience over the last 48 hours regarding our intermittent connectivity issues. Just to clarify the situation, Monday has now been compensated and Tuesday will also be compensated when the update is run this evening so that you do not lose out for the slowness experienced. Again we apologize for any

I've been doing some thinking…. Hide the sharp utensils! Seriously folks, a man has the right to change his mind and the responsibility to admit he's wrong and explain his decision. Rather than throw a hastily put together no reserve auction with lousy names that would put up mediocre numbers, we've decided to pull it and...

Add Conde Nast, ? the huge publisher, to the list of companies that "get" the value and importance of domains. They own some tremendous brands and in most cases the online and offline magazines to go with it. Some of Conde Nast's domain holdings are GQ.com, Style.com,? Details.com, Concierge.com, Gourmet.com, Brides.com, Epicurious.com, Wired.com, ...

Amazon.com bought online retailer Zappos.com $847 Million in a stock and cash transaction. According to the Wall Street Journal,? ""Amazon will swap shares equal to about $807 million to acquire Zappos.? Amazon said it will additionally provide Zappos employees with $40 million in cash and restricted stock units as part of the deal."" The Journal i...

I’m about to ruin your day. Think about what you are doing right now to put food on the table then consider the man who makes an application for iPhone that makes fart sounds is making $10,000 a day. And has 200 companies rushing to compete with him, some of whom like “Fart a Friend??? are making even more.In this hilarious but sadly true 3 minute ...

Amazon.com announced today that they bought online retailer Zappos.com for $847 Million, in a stock and cash transaction. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos added in a statement that “Zappos is a customer focused company. We see great opportunities for both companies to learn from each other and create even better experiences for our customers.??? He also crea...

Listed below are all short domain name sales?greater than?$449 in .com, .net and .org reported in DN Journal, DN Sale Price, and on Namepros. A few sales from May 2009 may have accidentally slipped in. These are only reported short domain sales that I've come across — like all domain market segments, only a small Related posts:Recent Short...